Has anyone tried, have opinion or experience with replacing the Ethernet with a USB cable? I think my crossed ethernet cable is broken and also see that using USB might... thats a might... be just as good? Or?

If I remember correctly there is a ROX application somewhere in "/root". Could be in "/root/my-applications" or something like "/root/my-rox-applications".
When you find it, you can just drag it to the desktop.

shareInternet simply doesn't work at that level. It only works after you have 2 working network interfaces. Usually you can see these using the "ifconfig" command in a console.
So, if you find a way to get Puppy to talk IP over USB, then shareInternet will do what you want. If Puppy can't do it, then shareInternet won't either.

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Imagine playing LAN games over USB

I can't get my mind past the simplicity of playing LAN games over an ethernet switch.

I bit the bullit and got a android phone with the carriers 4G lte coverage on my Ranch. Which has always been an AT&T oddity. They have always had way more spot coverage in my zone. I expect that was due to the Motorola manufacturing plant about 20 miles away. I think they must have had a cell tower test equipment spreader nearby because of existing microwave back haul superhighway line of sight between ATT San Antonio and Houston that goes directly chest high across my property. The usb tether idea would be nice as well for me for the same power usage problem other poster pointed out.
My current sprint cell company mifi has the expected lousy coverage my distance and terrain should have.

i am trying to use the netgear wifi router for my home, to connect adroid phoned, tablets, etc... the internet gateway and other wifi router is at my dads house. i use the usb wifi adapter on my puppy box to connect to it. i want to pipe the connection through the ethernet card to the netgear router here at my house.

i can connect to wifi internet with puppy box, i can connect to netgear router with android phones.shareinternet2.2.4 is showing green circle, but i cant get through

I suggest you try using your Netgear router as just a wifi access point, not a router. The puppy box is the router.
Do this by connecting the ethernet cable to a lan port on the Netgear router, not the wan port.
Also disable the dhcp server on the Netgear. Again this service is provided by the puppy box.

You can easily test Internet access by using one of the other lan ports on the Netgear.

Devices connected to the Netgear, should see the IP address of the puppy ethernet card, as their gateway address.

OR
You could try just setting the IP address of the puppy ethernet card to 192.168.2.1

I have a tplink wr702n. and wanted it to run a AP wireless network as a local network, but it needs a ethernet cable hook into a router to work. Would this be what I need. No actual internet is hooked up.